Viticulture modernization program – Modervitis

Precision Viticulture- A Mechanized Systems Approach

Winegrowers and winemakers have always been a special group of producers not only because of their product that can be manipulated from rootstock all the way to final bottling, but also because of their very special language. Winegrowers speak of phylloxera, Pierce's Disease, Botrytis cinerea, canopy management, veraison, anthocyanins and tannins until the average person looks askance at the sp...

Medicare, Modernization and FEHBP

Most capitated programs have not generated innovative ways to organize care, but have instead concentrated on enrolling healthy beneficiaries and using crude controls on service use. Competition can lead to a number of problems for beneficiaries, including instability in the care they receive. Choice of plans will not offer many advantages for beneficiaries, particularly since it is important t...

Model-Driven Software Modernization

This thesis elaborates the Model-Driven Software Modernization (MDSM), that has been identified by us, and is defined as a group of approaches toward modernization of legacy code. MDSM approaches are based on models, tools and processes known from the Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) that aims in automation of modernization process. This thesis describes identified MDSM approaches and related sta...

Does Modernization Require

Towards Automated Yield Estimation in Viticulture

Forecasting the grape yield of vineyards is of critical importance in the wine industry, as it allows grape growers to more accurately and confidently invests in capital equipment, negotiate pricing, schedule labour and develop marketing strategies. Currently, industry standard forecasts are generated by manual sampling of bunch weights, grape size, grape numbers and seasonal predictions which ...